By Faith of Jesus – Translators Abandon the KJV
Every student
of the Bible will have this experience – seeing a familiar passage in a new
light, and finding relatively few acknowledge the issue, even fewer address it.
What I find intriguing is this – Paul definitely teaches that forgiveness of
sin comes to us through our faith, but also that our faith rests upon the faith
of Jesus, the faith that belongs to Him. “From faith to faith” in Romans 1 is
not mysterious, but clear and worth repeating. The Gospel of John, which
stresses the righteousness of faith in Jesus, emphasizes in the sermons of
Jesus that He trusts completely in the will, the work, and the teaching of the
Father. The historic Christian Church has always taught the Two Natures in
Christ, divine and human. Are we so impoverished that we return to Monophysite
Christianity, with Christ having only one nature – divine? Paul does not teach
one or the other nature, but both, and this explains, better than any – “From
faith to faith.”
Romans 1:16-17
16 For
I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto
salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.17
For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is
written, The just shall live by faith.
17 For
this is how the righteousness of God is revealed, from the faith of Jesus to our
faith; as it is recorded – The justified will live by faith. (Jackson
Paraphrase)
Romans 3:22
22 Even the righteousness of
God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that
believe:
22 δικαιοσυνη δε θεου δια πιστεως ιησου χριστου εις
παντας και επι παντας τους πιστευοντας ου γαρ εστιν διαστολη
NIV
– faith in Jesus Christ, or (footnote) faithfulness of Jesus Christ
ESV
– faith in Jesus Christ
Galatians 2:16
16
Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the
faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might
be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by
the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
16 ειδοτες οτι ου δικαιουται ανθρωπος εξ εργων νομου εαν μη δια
πιστεως ιησου χριστου και ημεις εις χριστον ιησουν επιστευσαμεν ινα
δικαιωθωμεν εκ πιστεως χριστου και ουκ εξ εργων νομου διοτι ου δικαιωθησεται εξ
εργων νομου πασα σαρξ
NIV – faith in, or (footnote) - through the
faithfulness of…justified based on the faithfulness of
ESV – by faith in Christ
Philippians 3:8-9
8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss
for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have
suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win
Christ, 9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of
the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the
righteousness which is of God by faith:
8 αλλα μενουνγε και ηγουμαι
παντα ζημιαν ειναι δια το υπερεχον της γνωσεως χριστου ιησου του κυριου μου δι
ον τα παντα εζημιωθην και ηγουμαι σκυβαλα ειναι ινα χριστον κερδησω
9 και ευρεθω εν αυτω μη εχων
εμην δικαιοσυνην την εκ νομου αλλα την δια πιστεως χριστου την εκ θεου δικαιοσυνην
επι τη πιστει
NIV
– faith in, or (footnote) – through the faithfulness so
ESV
– faith in
(to be completed)
